Lobos Have Road Games Adjusted Due to Weather

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After a rainout on Sunday, the New Mexico Lobos, freshly back into the rankings at No. 66, head back on the road with a pair of matches, taking on Nevada on Saturday in Reno before taking on San Diego State on Monday.  The match with Nevada will take place at 1:30 pm Mountain Time and the match with San Diego State will take place at 11 am Mountain Time.

Both matches were moved to avoid the bad weather scheduled for Reno on Friday.  The Lobos have already had one match, last Sunday at UNLV, postponed due to rain, which one would think is a highly unlikely occurrence in Vegas and rain.

UNM is one of three unbeatens remaining in the league, with Boise State 1-0 and UNLV 0-0. The Lobos won their only match of the week on Thursday with a wild 4-3 come-from-behind win over Utah State, which saw Arda Azkara save two match points and win his 23rd straight at home at No. 1 without a loss.  It also pushed UNM back into the rankings at a season-high of 66.

Azkara got the key win to keep UNM alive and tie it at 3-3, and then Rafael Adbulsalam had the clinching honors with a 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 win to finally end the nearly four-hour marathon.

Nevada is 1-1 in the Mountain West, having lost 4-3 to Air Force but having defeated San Diego State 4-2 on Easter Sunday.  The Wolf Pack are 5-10 overall with four of those losses to ranked teams, including a 6-1 loss to No. 43 Denver.  San Diego State is 11-5 overall, but 0-2 in the league after losing to Boise State 4-3.